
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

Any man can be a father, but it takes a special person to be a dad.

I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.

A father's words are like a thermostat that sets the temperature in the house.

To her the name of father was another name for love.

To be a successful father...there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.

Lucky is that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

A father is a banker provided by nature. : French Proverb

I could not point to any need in childhood as strong as that for a father's protection.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

It is much easier to become a father than to be one.

You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together.

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.

That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

An angry father is most cruel towards himself.

Becoming a father is easy enough, but being one can be very rough.

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, You're tearing up the grass; We're not raising grass, Dad would reply. We're raising boys.

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.

Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.

Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.

I have two children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know really inspire me.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

And my dad, you're a great actor but you're a better father.

Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.

I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball.

My father died when I was 4 years old, so I can't really say anything about his hearing.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

I love my father as the stars - he's a bright shining example and a happy twinkling in my heart.

Safe, for a child, is his father's hand, holding him tight.

My dad takes care of me as a manager and as a dad. That's his job, you know, to take care of me. He has my best interests at heart.